Senior Media Software Developer Développeur de logiciels de média sénior

Unity Technologies; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Toronto is seeking a Media Technology Specialist to own and maintain the media tech stack across Unity-supported platforms. You will design media APIs, collaborate with teams to meet customer needs, and refactor existing code. The ideal candidate is an expert in C programming with deep media skills and experience in cross-platform systems.

Benefits

Wide range of benefits for employee well-being

Work-life balance sponsored initiatives

Qualifications

• Expert in C, focusing on memory threading and real-time performance profiling.
• Deep media domain skills including containers, codecs, and streaming synchronization.
• Design extensible, testable, and maintainable systems to reduce technical debt.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain a complex media tech stack across Unity-supported platforms.
• Design and build hardware abstraction layers and media APIs.
• Collaborate with internal teams to turn needs into platform capabilities.

Skills

C programming

Cross-platform media systems

Media domain skills

GPU-accelerated media

C# interoperability

Job description

The opportunity

The opportunity

Unity enables creators to ship to any device and media (audio and video) is core to that experience. The Media team is renewing our stack for extensibility and cross-platform parity while sustaining the reliability customers expect.

What youll be doing

• Own and maintain a complex media tech stack across Unity-supported platforms.
• Design and build hardware abstraction layers and cross-platform media APIs.
• Refactor and modernize existing code; integrate and evaluate third-party frameworks.
• Collaborate with Unity customers and internal authoring / runtime teams to turn needs into platform capabilities.

What were looking for

• Drive delivery of cross-platform media systems; own architecture decisions and customer impact.
• Expert in C (memory threading real-time perf profiling).
• Deep media domain skills (eg. containers / codecs streaming sync) and major platform media SDKs (mobile desktop consoles).
• Design extensible testable maintainable systems; reduce tech debt.
• Produce strategy docs / technical design docs; set / enforce non-functional requirements; align partner teams to ship.

You might also have

• C# interoperability
• Shipped media pipelines in Unity or comparable real-time engines at scale with measurable improvements to latency stability and parity.
• Led adoption or integration of open-source media frameworks (GStreamer FFmpeg).
• Expertise in GPU-accelerated media.
• Advanced audio experience : spatial audio DSP chains low-latency IO resampling and A / V sync across diverse platforms.
• Experience representing your organization with platform vendors or industry groups; negotiating SDK constraints and co-designing solutions.

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position
• Work visa / immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.

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